"chicago's deadly streets." >>> president obama is from chicago. so is his education secretary, arne duncan. as ceo of chicago public schools, duncan wrestled for years with the alarming rise in teenage deaths in his city. i sat down with him recently to discuss what can and should be done. when you see all of the kids, you know, all of the people who are killed in chicago this year, it's terrible that it happened but many of them are school-aged kids. it's happening in and around schools. solution? >> first of all, this is a devastating problem, and it's unacceptable. and kids can't learn if they don't feel safe. it's the one area where i felt during my time in chicago we improved in so many ways. this is one area where i feel like i feel like an absolute failure. >> why do you say you feel like a failure with that? >> because i look at trends, and from the time i started raising this four, five years ago when 20 students were killed, i think every year those numbers have gotten worse, not better. >> i know it's not just numbers to you. because ch

that is a big issue in chicago right now.e news media because there has been a rise in violence on the north side as well as the south and west sides of chicago. we want you to be part of our community here. twitter, facebook, myspace.com. tonight at 10:00 we are taking an in depth look at chicago's deadly streets. we take you to the neighborhoods where the killings are happening. we'll question city officials. we look at what one local group is doing to stop the violence and we'll go one-on-one with chicago's former

i feel like i'm back home in chicago. i have been doing all of these chicago stories tonight. which barbershop was that? do you recognize that barbershop? >> that is league styles barbershop. >> there you go. been there. dr. thomas, since you started, since the "black in america" piece aired, what happened? has there been a big change in project brotherhood? >> yes, we have seen a big influx of men trying to access services. a lot of men are trying to come in and see the doc now, so we appreciate that. we have also seen a reduction in the funding, unfortunately because of the government and what's going on in the state of illinois, our funding is also in jeopardy as well. so that's sort of another issue we have to deal with as well. >> as you talk about that, i read here mr. spivey, who serves as project brotherhood's director here, you're with danny davis health task force and cook county ambulatory and have you been working with people who have been disenfranchised by the medical community for a long, long time. what difference are you seeing now with these type of services,

and he was the student at the university of chicago. and after my father's death he went -- he turned 18, he was the sophomore by then, and he wrote an article about the west side of chicago criticizing martin luther king's crusade at that point in chicago. and he argued that the problem on the west side was there were too many welfare recipients out there and well far recipients didn't have a steak in their communities and therefore destroyed them. they tore down the properties in which they lived through bad -- through just destructive behavior. and he wrote an article making this point. and the article, even though he was just 18, an unknown 18-year-old sophomore at university of chicago, the article ma quite an impact. people loved it. white people loved it. they thought wow here's someone telling the truth about the west side. which is part of my -- why i sometimes question academic. because there was an academic analysis going on at the time about, you know, bad culture destroying communities. he said into that, he picked up on it

you still have to feed the parking meters in chicago -- the city of chicago privatized the parking metersuch to the dismay of many of the citizens of chicago. the city got $1.3 billion for privatizing the parking meters and the citizens of chicago got to pay a whole lot more for parking, and if there's been one political liability for daley this year it's been his handling of this parking-meter privatization contract. people are livid. for one thing, they raised the prices to park, they extended the hours -- some parking meters are now 24/7 and before doing this they didn't make enough changes so that, for instance, you could put a credit card in a parking meter box so citizens are having to carry around 27 quarters to park downtown for two hours, so it's not been a happy time around parking issues in chicago. >> suarez: elizabeth brackett in chicago. thanks for joining us. >> thank you. >> lehrer: part two of our report focuses on california, the state that's been hit harder than most. newshour correspondent spencer michels reports on some of the fallout from its compromised budget. >> c

today was a holid in chicago.y hall ner opened for buiness. libraries and senior cents remained rk, and no garbage was picked up. all part of the wiy city's effort to fill 2009 budget shortfall of nrly $300 million. newsour correspondent elizabeth brackett of wttw has en covering the story toy, and joins us now from thehicago tonight studios. elizabeth, was iapparent that something was up, that thounds of pple weren't at work? >> it was different kind of day in chicago particular with cy hall closed -- people notid that, for sure, and also people who wanted go to the liary. one young man aid, "i don't have a computer at home and i need to do my hoework at the library. that's the only computer have access to." so it wa noticed, and people did notice thatheir garbage dn't get picked upoday ther. >> reporr: the gaps several hundred million dolla. do furloughs like the one put in place todayut a big down payme on closing that budget gap? >> well,t's a help. initially, the budget gap out of an almost $6 bilon budget wa

and young ladies, until at least 25. >> life on chicago's south side, if you're from chicago or any other community and have a story about how violence has affected you, send it to i-report.com and we will get it on the air for you. >>> tonight, we are taking an n in-depth look at chicago's deadly streets. we take you to the neighborhood where is the shootingses are hatching, we'll also question the police and look at what one local group is doing to stop this unbelievable violence and go one on one with chicago's former school superintendent arne duncan, now president obama's second of education. >> there are many people though in this country to whom this story does not resonate. they're in great communities, they don't see this sort of violence, they're not on the west side of chicago in a black or brown community. what do you say to them? >> unfortunately, this is not simply an inner city issue, this is a virginia tech issue, a northern illinois issue, we have young people from white, black, brown, from many different communities being definite tated because of it. so i think if we ca

chicago is facing a budget crisis. tomorrow is one of three reduced service days planned this year that is expected to save the city more than $8 million. >>> tomorrow may not be a commuter's nightmare in san francisco if talks to avoid a real strike stay on track. union reps for b.a.r.t. workers say they have made progress in talks with management and they plan to keep negotiating. but they haven't officially called off the strike set for tomorrow, which would leave thousands of commuters stranded. public transportation workers are facing a 7% pay cut and reduced holiday pay. now, two other unions have reached a deal with b.a.r.t., but members of this union say they're being asked to give up too much. >>> our affiliate in atlanta, wsb, is reporting that divers are now taking part in the search for a missing north georgia woman. they found christy cornwell's cell phone. she may have been abducted while she was talking on it. the georgia bureau of investigations says the phone was found by a man who was mowing his lawn

newspaper that chicago conservator. they hit it off. she was attractive and flirtatious women she had dated but had never met a man who she's really hit it off. and he was 30 quote in terms of energy and ambition and politics because he was also an activist. they got to know each other and both protesting the lack of discussion of the lack of african-americans at the chicago world's fair or any representation. and they had a true meeting of the minds. they got married, work together, he supporter anti-lynching activities and she supported his as a lawyer and he did a lot of rescuing people from jail. they have four children, remained married a long-term marriage. they grew old together. she would end up being very happy but ferdinand barnett was unusual he did all of the cooking. wells did not care for cooking or housecleahouseclea ning and have that hired out. >> host: in the 1890's? so she still went out and did her speaking or how is she handling being a mother? >> guest: initially she thinks she will have to retire

and we started doing these chapbook and they come to chicago, we don't have a block in chicago. in the middle of the black community. [applause] >> and so, when we come to schombg we see beauty or. we see art. we see ourselves are. when you come to third world pressure you come to our schools use you thinking. what we do at two half usual, we teach these children to love themselves, to love themselves. and then we live at love with knowledge about themsves as they come through our program. today, we started in 1959 in terms of our schools. and we have young people all over the country have come througuniversities and colleges and they'll lawyers and doctors and architects and politicians and so forth. why? because my wife and i., and others, decided we would dedicate our lives to our people. to ourselves. i am a poor writer, all right. so as a writer come as a poet, as the man who loves humanity, loves people, we realized qui early, my wife and i and oers that essentially we can do what we want to dl our people, we did not come into this world as negative we did not come into th

look at the showers getting into chicago. line stretches all the way into lower michigan, lower parts of indiana as well. that cold front moves into new england later today, but ahead of it, temperatures will be warm. 90 new york today, 90 in philly, showers and storms overnight tonight. the big story out west is the high pressure that's going to continue to build and the heat will build underneath that. let me show you some tape we got about half an hour ago. this is right out of l.a. it's going to be hot today. that's a beautiful shot, but it's going to heat up quickly, it's going to be dry. 98 the high today in downtown los angeles. it will be that hot, robin, probably all the way through saturday before they hit the low 90s again by, i think, sunday afternoon. bad fire danger. we have warnings up through l.a. and that's because of the dry conditions and the heat. >> apparently there are a lot of helicopters flying over l.a. right now. >> that fire weather is going to be there five to seven days. >> were those the same hel

that's set up for chicago itself. down to the south a little bit farther you can see kansas city, oklahoma city, more storms as well. it's heavier as you get down closer toward dallas. more on that coming up in just a little bit. natasha. >> look at the storms going on lately. my goodness. >> well, second in command in south carolina has a message for the governor. resign. but the governor has something to say about that. hmm. plus -- >> i'm not going to move, and you're not going to arrest me. >> oh, it was a shoutdown at a health care protest, and police moved in with hand cuffs. ten minutes after the hour right now. famous crime writer dominic dominick dunne has died after a long fight with cancer. dunne started writing about crime after the 1982 murder of his daughter and became a crime victim's advocate. he was work on his final novel when he died. he was 83. >>> south carolina governor mark sanford says he will not quit. lieutenant governor says there are too many questions surrounding his affair and travel on p

brooke baldwin, cnn, chicago. >> fascinating report, brooke baldwin there in chicago. >>> we're going to continue to follow that story, until we get to the bottom of what's going on in chicago, to see what they're doing. >>> it's bad enough someone secretly taped espn reporter erin andrews in her hotel room, but how will this affect her ability to do her job or her income? how will it affect her life? our sports analyst, rick horrow will join us with some answers. >>> competitive swim something supposed to be all about the controversial high-tech racing suits, right? not really. well, except michael phelps wearing last year's infear yo speeder lzr, arch rifeed allow milorad cavic in the 100 meter butterfly at the world championship in rome. both men hit the wall at under 50 seconds, both setting the world record, a fever pitch this week with cavic even casting doubt on one of phelps' gold medals in beijing. hmm. all right. >>> another page in the saga of the secret video taping of erin andrews nude in a hotel room. paparazzi are camping out in front of her atlanta area home. here is p

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which was held in chicago over the first week in this past june. the first event featured beryl satter who dcussed your book, the family and the exploitation of black urban america. >> thank you and good morning everyone. i would like to welcome you to our session, the 20 that the animal chicago tribune printers row lit fest. r session this morning features beryl satte the author of family properties, race, real estate in the exploitation of black america published earlier this year by metropolitan books. my name is at eric arneson and m a professor of history a the university of illinois at chicago and i will be talking to barrel about your book before we en up the discussion to you, our audience members but first if i made a few introductory remarks. for muh of the 20th century chicago has maintained decrepitation as one of the nation's most segregated cities. its african-american population consign to the black belt on the

. >>> the chicago police aren't the only ones asking people to turn in their guns. parents who have lost children to violence are begging folks to trade a firearm in for a gift card. >>> in life, he was the king. and for elvis fans, nothing has changes. they are remembering his death, 32 years ago today. but this year, they have something to celebrate as well. >>> hi. you are watching hln. i'm virginia cha. here's our top story. we now have three tropical storms to keep our eyes on. parts of the florida and alabama coast are under storm warnings as a new weather system brews off the northern gulf coast. it sprang up early this morning. it's strengthened enough to become tropical storm claudette. it could bring 3 to 5 inches of rain to florida and southwest georgia. and some parts of the florida panhandle could get up to ten inches of rain. meantime, tropical storm bill is churning over the atlantic getting stronger and heading east. it could make it to hurricane strength today. also, tropical storm ana still causing worries for the caribbean as it moves westward. fo

a good job in chicago. used he first ball very effectively. i think for jerusalem guthrie, -- jeremy guthrie, he has to work to finish the season strong. 

and one hour is about chicago. i made the last documentary in the robert taylor homes right before they tore them down. i put mr. black in the film. you're lucky to have him in your community. >> he's a great man. i'd like to welcome first to the microphone, madeleine schwartz. she was in this cool guys class at walter peyton high that you helped film. madeleine? >> hi. >> how are you? >> i'm good. >> please. >> you're all dressed up tonight, man. not like high school. $ >> well, i was just wondering, have you, in terms of just race, have you both as an academic and just socially noticed a difference in the way that people talk about race and discuss it, like i said, academically and socially? >> yes, i think that's a good question. i think that we're -- with a black man and woman in the white house, you have to talk about race more openly just by definition than we ever have before. though it's still -- we have a long way to go because we still comport race with class. for example, i'm a product of affirmative act

thanks. >>> chicago is shutting down. chicago is shutting down to save money.ell, here is the deal it is the first of three reduced-service days, means no trash pickup no street sweeping, city offices are closed, employees won't be paid. the local media points out that this could save the city more than $8 million over the three days. those other two days will be later on in the year and the police and the fire departments will not be affected. will not be part of those days. going to be stinking, not going to have trash pickup. >>> busy already watching weather of a tropical nature. chris is in for bob with an update on claudette. good morning. >> good morning, robin. continuing to watch several tropical systems out there across the atlantic basin from claudette to bill, which is now our first hurricane of the season and tropical depression ana, now making its way through the caribbean. i want to start off with ana. ana is not forecast to strengthen a lot it may turn into a tropical wave it is a tropical depression right now, forecast to make its way across th

chicago with 78 degrees. atlanta with 89. but the high humidity.n florida for tampa and miami, high temperatures mainly in the 90s, the humidity very high, maybe a stray shower or thunderstorm. keep in mind, you happen to be in miami, you go south on highway -- back along 101, it's going to take you -- you're going to go right into the florida keys. right in the middle of the florida keys you'll come right to alamranna. that is this weekend's getaway. a unique destination in the upper keys is islamorada. the home of some of the world's most coveted sports fish. >> it's unusual because of our location. every fish that actually swims in this hemisphere can be caught from these shores. >> reporter: it has a historic site, and a chance to catch a glimpse of the past. >> this is the last known resting place of the founder. >> indian key is a very interesting place to visit. there are these old european ruins. >> reporter: or rent a kayak or canoe, explore on your own. it's a combination of range from old florida style with budget-friendly prices. >> it'

but chicago is not alone. here's diana alvear. >> reporter: city workers take monday off. three forced furlough days thanks to a budget in the red. sanitation trucks will be idle. even city hall will be closed. but mjs workers including police officers, firefighters and 911 operators will report to work as usual. mayor richard daly expects to save $8.3 million with the three planned days. recently he urged president obama to take unpaid days, as well in solidarity with his hometown. >> i believe that we have enormous impact upon america. in other words, you're telling the taxpayers that everybody is suffering, you're suffering. >> reporter: chicago is not the only american city that's forcing furlough days on its workers. in fact, some local and state governments are incorporating them on a regular basis, desperate to cut budgets anywhere they can. michigan wants to save nearly 22 million through six unpaid days. in colorado, furlough days may be accompanied by pay cut, as well, but nothing compares to california where more than 90% of state workers will be off on the firs

i founded third world press with $400 and a machine and when you come a chicago we own a black of chicago in the middle of the black community. [applause] >> and when we come to the schomberg we see beauty and art and ourselves here. you come to third world press and our schools you see the same thing. and what we do, at 2 1/2 years old we teach these children to love themselves and then we layer that love with an analogy about themselves as they come through our program. and we started it in 1969 and we have young people all over the country who have come through universities and colleges and now they're lawyers and doctors and architects, anthropologists and so forth. why? because my wife and others decided that we would dedicated our lives to our people. to ourselves. i'm a poet. i'm a writer, all right? and so as a writer as a poet, as a man who loves humanity, loves people, we realized quite early, my wife and i and others, that essentially we can do what we work to do. our people were -- we did not come into this world as beggars. we did not come intthe world as beggars. somewhere a

it said chicago bears on the front. and it said chicago bears on her butt.in this outfit for shawn. >> it's not clear what or how much ronnie ryder knew about marny or the other women in shawn's life over the years. but she was still his girlfriend. still the woman he took to bears events. and her family says he was still the love of her life. but she might have been suspicious because at one point she started receiving anonymous letters. with a warning abut shaun. >> describing the fact that he was not only seeing this one particular woman but seeing many women at the same time. >> shaun said the letters were full of lies, the work of some one out to make him look bad, harass them. who had sent them? and would they be a soon of something far more sinister to come? coming up -- gunfire. and disaster. >> just overwhelming. it was terrible. >> the lives of ronnie, shaun and the child they were expecting would never be the same. the country at red lobs. from the northeast, try our new maine lobster and crab bake, with garlic-roasted tender maine lobster, jumbo

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it's strange to say this, chicago was simply closed down today. chicago is not alone. city after city, state after state. turning to drastic measures to save money. here's barbara pinto. >> if you wanted to pay a parking ticket in the city of chicago today, forget about it. >> this is so ludicrous. >> reporter: needed to use the library? think again. >> it's a headache. it's a real headache. >> reporter: this is the first of three forced furlough days for tens of thousands of city workers -- was a day of frustration for city residents. it was business as usual for police and emergency services but the city's fleet of garbage trucks sat idle. the dmv, health clinics, even city hall, all closed in the an attempt to save $8 million of the city's $300 million shortfall. >> i suppose this is a better option than layoff. >> reporter: it's not just here. 69 percent of the cities nationwide have now resorted to furloughs, layoffs, or pay freezes to cut costs. and states too -- connecticut wants to save $700 million by forcing 50,000 workers to take 7 days off. desperate for ca

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of the first things in chicago. while history teaches that nothing is e static, everything changes. even in law enforcement, the question is what will these gangs look like in the future? well, there are three indicators and one wild card that i think might give us a clue to that. one indicator is the proportion of the second generation. that is u.s. born from immigrant parents of latino kids 18 and under has grown from about 30% of latino population to about 50% since the last several years. that bulge is not going to go down for another decade. those are precisely the kids that are most ann recruited. that ball is going to be there as a recruiting tool. second, the reports say that street gangs are moving from retail to wholesale. that means it often will come with violence. that means the drug trafficking organizations are moving stronger operations. that's the queen of ms and 18th street. there are a lot of scenarios from that, and none of them will good. nobody yet has hammered any of these into anything lively

rick baldwin rides through some of the most dangerous areas of chicago with a well-known gang member. we hear his personal story of life on the streets. >>> imagine buying your dream condo expecting luxury living, then being the only one actually living there. it happened to a family in florida. >>> after the arrest, the trial, nearly 100 people go to court for protesting iran's disputed presidential election. deadline or no deadline, no deal. august comes and the house adjourns without taking final action on health care reform. >>> confusion surround the government programs that was more popular than anyone expected. is there still time to exchange your clunker for cash? hello, i'm fredericka whitfield. you are in the "cnn newsroom." >>> the central terminal at new york's la guardia airport has reopened after a startling incident at a security checkpoint. the terminal was evacuated for hours after a man walked up to a security checkpoint with a device attached to a backpack. cnn's national correspondent susan candiotti is in new york, a headache for so many now a serious investigatio

specifically, dea in chicago and the dea and i.c.e.ork established direct connections from the streets of chicago and new york to attend a drug with kingpins at the highest command and control levels of their organizations. and this led to the indictments in chicago include ink sinnott osd pots, arturo belmont, ishmael garcia and what he and also to the scope. we have york against the leader of the juarez cartel and s. dimond and rodriguez of the los karos drug-trafficking organization. the mexican base the cartel also known as the federation is among the most violent and insidious of these organizations. working closely with brave partners in mexico we are keeping up unrelenting pressure on the federation as well as the juarez cartel and other mexican drug cartels and we are determined to dismantle these cartels and their domestic cells. during the course of these investigations dea and partners made noteworthy seizures of drugs and assets including more than 22.6 million in cash, more than 32,500 kilos of coke and 64 kilograms of her

chicago is a place that fights back. chicago is a place blacks are armed. and this begins this idea of the radical negro as you mention is a former the 60's. thank you for the question. >> another question? >> i don't know i've got a lot of questions but one of them is this is the festival of books that are you tempted with all of the research you have done to use other forms? the young man talking about the documentary is don, are you tempted to do that, and also mr. reeves, language of science as mathematics, and in order to interpret that for people who are not a mathematical oriented and it is an extraordinary thing and how can we do more of that for kids so that they can get involved in science and last question is as a living person how do you do a biography of a living person versus someone who has the entire story done? >> who wants to take those? >> the science part of it that and i think you have got -- children should be taught math is not an abstraction. it is a tool and i have shown my kids but if anybody doubted there are rutherford museums in

he was born to a greek immigrants and raised in chicago.d the broadway bank, and very successful chain of banks, in the chicagoland area. -- a very successful chain. >> he was the vice president of the bank. got his master's from the university of chicago in business administration. about the same time, barack obama was teaching law at the university of chicago, and they met each other there. he actually played professional basketball in greece for several years. sean: using these reservations -- relationships to the president's advantage. >> he was very much and no player in helping barack obama get seed money for his 2004 u.s. seed raids -- he was very much a player in helping barack obama get seed money for his 2004 u.s. seat race. this was a good factor in helping obama when that 2004 u.s. senate race. >> thank you. >> -- to win in that 2004 u.s. senate race. just 30 years old, with the backing of his good friend barack obama, he ran for straight treasurer, a position that people in the downstate position of springfield had already slat

we're also watching a front up by chicago. it will put down heavy rain. temperatures are warm today. it's going to be a hot summer day almost everywhere. be prepared for 90s from boston to washington, d.c. 90 into atlanta. everyone has a good warmup ahead of the next cold front. still a chance of showers and storms in area of florida. that's a look at your national forecast. now here's a look at the weather outside your window. we're going to continue to be very warm in southern new england. look at that. 91 in providence. pittsburgh, 82. louisville, kentucky, should be beautiful at 86. a little hot in charlotte at 92 degrees. that's your wednesday forecast, christina. >> all right. thanks so much, bill. >>> home prices pop, retailer stocks surge, and the price of a cold one is heading up. your early morning business headlines are straight ahead. >>> plus, she may not be making idols anymore, but paula abdul has landed herself a new job. >>> phillies walk the plank. and surprise, surprise, another lands on the d.l. you're watching "early today." >>> good

watch out for thunderstorms in chicago. also stray storm tampa to orlando. by the time we get to saturday, we will be watching a couple more clouds up here in new england. but the heat is going to begin to build. d.c., back up near 90. chicago, 92 degrees for you. by the time we get to sunday, look at the heat. chicago, 97. 93 detroit. in washington, d.c. could be 97 on sunday. get ready. sunday is going to be hot. if you're watching nbc 6, beautiful miami, florida, enjoy a star show and laser light show featuring the music of the doors, pink floyd or led zeppelin at the fabulous fist fridays. that's your eastern event of the day, dan. at first i thought we were talking about a south beach nightclub. >> cue up stairway to heaven. we're going to learn about stars today. thank you, bill. >>> now here's an early look at this morning's headlines in entertainment. usually when a studio won't let critics see a film that means it stinks. what is unusual is one opening as sure-fire number one movie. g.i. joe will lean on a core audience of action stars of young male

y apenas se jugaban 9 minutos, y patrick nyarko puso a festejar a chicago fire. y a dentro para el empate. no cabe dud que itamar es una fiera con su nuevo equipo. que lleva a dentroro y terminó el partido se fueron directo a los penales. >>> chicago falló 2 tigres 1 y la figura fue para no varear. son los nuevos reyes de la superliga. >>> y el delantero omar bravo, les cuento, regresara a su equipo sus amores, las chivas. y faltan pequeños detalles para la presentación. pasamos con la fase preliminar de la concacaf. está... ganó revancha. calificaron a la fase de grupos. cruz azul cumplió con el trámite y empató sin goles la vuelta. a favor de la máquina. el defensa rafa márquez se volvió a lesionar. fue el entrenamiento de la semana. se trata de una lesión muchos claro en la peina izquierda. estará de 10 a 15 días. 4 a 0. de la mls su segundo partido de la gira por estados unidos. mente y terminamos conn 2 goles más, nominados al mejor de la copa oro 2009. ante costa rica. y ahora toca el turno para el... fue la primera fase entre estados unidos y haití. se la

my university in chicago. we are talking about the late 1960's and early 1970's, a time when race was very much an issue. we were dealing with the assassination of one of the leaders of the black panther party, which was big news in chicago. we were dealing with the aftermath of the king assassination and all of these kinds of issues. we were dealing with riots which tore up the community in which i grew up, both in 1966 and in 1968. my writing about race at that time came out of what was the big story of the age, which happened to coincide with my coming-of-age. >> exactly where in chicago did you grow up? >> i grew up on the west side up chicago in a housing project. henry horner homes. last week i was in california. an old friend of mine is the bass player now for earth, wind, and fire. we both grew up in the same neighborhood. we were reminiscing about growing up in that part of the west side. >> what was it like there? >> in one sense, it was like any childhood. we were not aware -- we were aware they wer

we live in chicago. the doctors told my. you're going to lose her. so the old man had retired, you know, civil servant. pau gasol up verizon to save his daughter. so i got there and found the place i belong, the desert. never heard of it. i thought everyplace was trees in illinois. so i scored. this must be proof of intelligent design. >> you say the second book -- >> the second one is coming out in the fall 2008. i spent seven years on it. it's got 114 photographs by the mexican photographer, that is called exodus and it is about the migration. it's about the migration in mexico. is about crossing the line illegally and it's about the dire of the mexican people in the united states. >> so it is people pictures. >> yeah, the third lawyer i am just starting. this is one of my jazz lounges where i rest from the cruelty of the world. and that one will be about power, and then i will retire, sit on a rock and know everything. >> what kind of power? >> the border is fascinating because it's a place, the mexican border, where two civilizations, hispanic an

and at the democratic convention in chicago, riots in the streets outside the hall between protesters and the chicago police became the big story on tv, inside senator abe ribicoff tried to say it was all about mayor daley's cops. >> we wouldn't have to have gestapo tactics in the streets of chicago. >> michele, everybody thinks that killed the democrats in 1968. >> you see daley lip read later and you look another what he said and it was not kind at that moment. while they were showing pictures of the police man handling the protesters. r-, the protesters knew they were watching. many people involved in the protests said then certain that the american public would be repulsed by what they saw. in fact, the opposite happened. the majority of people were repulsed by the anti-war movement. more repulsed by that than the treatment of those protesters at the hands of the police. >> for dick daley and the democratic machine, it had this exposed on national television. they were not used to the sunlight. chris: the national nightmare of vietnam gave way to watergate. hundreds of hours of ho

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today parts of chicago will be shut down because of the city's money problems. in an effort to balance the budget, public libraries, health clinics and most city offices, including city hall, will be closed. >>> milwaukee mayor tom barrett has been hospitalized in stable condition after a man attacked him with a metal pipe. the mayor was at a state fair when he tried to help a grandmother and granddaughter caught in a domestic dispute. he suffered hand and head wounds. the suspect fled the scene but was later arrested. >>> in russia fighter jets crashed while they practiced for the annual air show. one pilot died, another broke his spine. five others on the ground were also hurt when one of the planes crashed into a residential building. >>> scientists tracking minute movements along two massive tech tonic plates in the northwest say if those plates snap, the seattle/tacoma area could be hit by a 9.0 or greaterette quake. earlier data on the tremors centered a possible earthquake much farther from the seattle/tacoma area. home to at least 3.6 million people. the

in chicago, steve brown, fox news. bret: chinese parents storm a smelting plant that they say has put their lives and the lives of their children at risk, next. naing onon ud r. weotototatatininci on us cars for everybody anont cfidedence ininin o. caususususlendnds s ve a a a t tcks. ququq n . we have a winner! yes! bret: new news around the world, a truck bomb exploded in pakistan, and 7 people died including thee children. police say the driver of that truck was handed a package marked "medicine," which later exploded. an accident at russia he's largest hydroelectric plant has left at least ten workers dead. the blast at the facility in southern siberia was triggered when a transformer exploded during repair work. an engine room flooded, trapping dozens of people. as many as 65 people are still missing. in china, outraged parents have stormed an industrial facility that is allegedly responsible for making hundreds of children sick. correspondent amy kellogg has the story. >> this lead and sink plant was closed last

robert lucas is one of the remaining high priests of the chicago school. he won the nob economics in 1995. >> we thought we knew a lot. it turned out we didn't know a damn thing about the stability of the banking system so you know it's back to the drawing board. we'll see what comes out of it. somebody is going to have to figure this stuff out. >> you don't mind milton friedman right? >> yeah. i mean if he was right something, he was wrong about others but maybe we should all apologize for not grasping the fragile nature of the financial system but i don't see why chicago in particular. >> reporter: these days, economics muscles its way into pretty much every subject matter -- history, the environment, even a bit of self-help. but it's a canon of orthodox economics represented by these textbooks that have been conveying the same thing that the world can be modeled by a series of formulae, by mathematics and that can be used to predict the future. while they've got their formulae wrong, and that's asking real questions about the foundations over social sci

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chicago has now tripled the number of year-round schools to 132.t smith elementary where almost all the students are from low-income families, the principal jumped at the chance. >> giving our students an opportunity to start school earlier, allows them to retain more of the information that they had either in summer school or in june. >> reporter: parents say the program has benefits beyond academics. >> just to keep them busy and off the streets. give them something to do. >> reporter: year round schools gaining momentum here among some parents, eager to give their children any advantage they can. rehema ellis, nbc news, chicago. >>> when "nightly news" continues in a moment, we will show you something designed to get your attention and the producers are hoping it works. you've wanted to quit smoking so many times, but those days came and went, and the cigarettes remained. but today's a new day. and a few simple steps can make a real difference in your next quit... things like starting with a plan to quit smoking... getting support... and talking